Saturday, September 6, 2014

The Little Ohio Movie Theater That Could

It wasn't just the rise and fall of 20th century socialism that was on display at the recent Telluride Film Festival. Preceding Friday and Sunday screenings of Peter von Bagh's political doc Socialism was a shorter look at the rise and fall of traditional film projection.

From Pinewood Studios to Lone Pine, California

Next month, the Lone Pine Film Festival will celebrate its 25th silver anniversary. And there to document the California hamlet's long Hollywood legacy and crucial connections to the Western genre will be nascent British filmmaker John Jessup.

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Mississippi Teacher Rolls Out Another Movie

Jimmy Lee, a one-man dynamo in Jackson, Mississippi, told an interviewer in 2008 that his stage play No Good Comes To Those Who Do Wrong was not based on personal experience. "I have a wild imagination," said Lee, dressed in white suit and blue kerchief for the "blue carpet" play premiere.

Saturday, August 23, 2014

One More Q&A for Alt-Weekly Reporter Billy Manes

Billy Manes' Orlando Weekly bio ends with the rhetorical, 'In his spare time, he likes listening to Duran Duran with his three miniature pinschers. Don’t you?'

Thursday, August 21, 2014

A Close-Knit Band of Movie Lovers

The genealogy of this documentary begins with an interrupted conversation in LA's San Fernando Valley in the fall of 2010 and continues Friday, August 22nd with a premiere screening at a film festival in Oaklyn, New Jersey.